Odd search order and delegation problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <91rc8n$3ep at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Chicken Man <chicknmon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Both of which behave as expected given the resolv.conf. But…
>
>[root at kando named]# ping multi.de
>PING multi.de (194.195.64.35) from 10.1.6.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
>From router.example.com (10.1.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>From router.example.com (10.1.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>From router.example.com (10.1.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>From router.example.com (10.1.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>ò
>--- mail.de ping statistics ---
>4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss
>[root at kando named]#
>
>Which is the Internet multi.de address rather than multi.de.example.com, not 
>what one would expect with the resolv.conf as shown above.

If a name contains any dots, it's tried as a fully qualified name before
trying to append the domains in resolv.conf's "search" or "domain"
directives.  RFC 1535 says:

   Further, in any event where a "." exists in a specified name it
   should be assumed to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) and
   SHOULD be tried as a rooted name first.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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